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| Pauly Shore is Dead | Oct 13, 2009 |
This is the worst of the worst thing I have ever seen.
And I still can't understand how all those famous faces such as Adam Sandler, Pamela Anderson, Charlie Sheen, Eminem, Britney Spears, Ben Stiller etc. agreed to use their names in such nonsense.
| | | | | Australia... | Oct 13, 2009 |
4 pages of comments already and no one has mentioned Australia? Boring and pointless...
| | | | | I recently saw | Oct 14, 2009 |
the recent remake of WAR OF THE WORLDS. It was UNnwatchable...just absolute torture!
as for Revolutionary Road, the book is supposed to be much better. I plan to read it...the problem is it's probably unfilmable.
and add TITANIC and ENGLISH PATIENT to the list....zzzzzzzzzzz
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| | | | | Lost in Translation | Oct 14, 2009 |
kleiner Kater wrote:
It's a matter of taste. I absolutely love LOST IN TRANSLATION, and a movie most of my friends seem to hate with a passion: REMAINS OF THE DAY.
And this may surprise some of you guys, but I've never understood why so many people like the CLOCKWORK ORANGE. I saw it and thought it was terribly boring.
But you know what they say... there's just no accounting for taste.
Yes, exactly. To be completely honnest I probably didn't like it because I'd been living in Tokyo for so long and it didn't reflect my own perspective at all.
Someone mentionned Steven Seagal (I always feel like writing : Seagul), I couldn't agree more. Never understood why he is popular with guys, in Japan or anywhere else.
Is there a thread for good movies?
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| Plan 9 from Outerspace | Oct 14, 2009 |
is affectionately known as the worst movie of all time, at least in the States.
PS Lair of the White Worm is a scream!
| | | | Gianni Pastore 
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TOPIC STARTER | | many...many... | Oct 14, 2009 |
Ok, first let me unleash the list of actors I cannot stand:
1) Silvester Stallone (after having watched Rocky I and ended up laughing at his ridiculous character I swore I would have never watched ANY other movie with him in it, because clearly the guy cannot act, plus he is called like the cat of the cartoons... c'mon, how serious can he be?)
2) Clint Eastwood (40 years of movies= SAME (pissed) EXPRESSIO... See more Ok, first let me unleash the list of actors I cannot stand:
1) Silvester Stallone (after having watched Rocky I and ended up laughing at his ridiculous character I swore I would have never watched ANY other movie with him in it, because clearly the guy cannot act, plus he is called like the cat of the cartoons... c'mon, how serious can he be?)
2) Clint Eastwood (40 years of movies= SAME (pissed) EXPRESSION in every single movie... I can't take him, I simply can't). I tried to watch "Million Dollar Baby" because of all the hullabaloo when the movie came out and the academy awards...bla bla bla.... I couldn't go past the first 20 minutes... ugly movie, just like all the others with Eastwood in them.
3) Brad Pitt (he might be fairly good looking but as an actor he's not the best pea in the pod IMO). I think "Interview with the vampire" is one of the most horrid and unbearable movies I have ever watched.
4) Russell Crowe (I'm still asking myself how on earth he got the Academy award for BEST ACTOR in the Gladiator...go figure... the movie sucks and the guy is a boor).
5) Julian Sands (is he really an actor??? I am still trying to understand another of the worst movies I have ever watched, "Boxing Helena" (it's a creepy movie, don't watch it!) where Sands plays the leading role....)
6) one woman in this "personal lampoon" list: Madonna. Please stick to singing, you're not great at that either. Her movies have been one flop after another...
7) Kevin Costner (as an actor or director he's not really the best, and I'm being kind to him!).
Now a short list of some of the uglieste movies I have ever watched :
Julia and Julia (with Sting and Kathleen Turner)... did somebody understand what it was about? I dunno...and I ain't gonna give it another try for sure!
Dune (with Sting)...definitely Sting is like Madonna: he should stick to singing...
The Big Lebowski (didn't get it...what was all that fuss about bowling???)
Lucky You (with Drew Barrymore...worse than a chick flick...a lame chick flick)
Borat (sigh... should I say anything more???)
Flightplan (with Jodie Foster)...just another lame movie ....
War of the Worlds (watched it just because of Dakota Fanning, but the movie sucks)
Eyes without a face (no, it's not Billy Idol's song, just an old, depressing French movie)
Quills (with the lovely Kate Winslet, but boy, is the movie ugly...)
Legend of the Fall (despite the great Anthony Hopkins who's one of my favorite actors (he could read he yellow pages for what I know, and still be a great actor IMHO), Brad Pitt is simply UNBEARABLE, makes me want to slap him in the face!)
Meet Joe Black (ditto, there's Brad Pitt)
Jaws (you can see from 1 MILE that the shark coming out of the water is a ridiculous cardboard thingy...)
King Kong (the old one, with Jessica Lange)... the monkey (ok, it's a gorilla) moves like a robot...
Signs (the plot is sooooo slooooooooooooooow...wake up Joaquin and Mel!)
Van Helsing (oh God, just terrible, terrible...)
The Village (what a waste of time...)
The Number 23 (whaaaaaad???)
The Wrestler (YIKES!!!!)
4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days (depressing Romanian movie...)
The list would be longer....
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| | | | | ..here's another (bad) one | Oct 14, 2009 |
Close encounters of the third kind: unbearable. The mountain of mashed potatoes is just ridiculous, the screenplayer must have been on something when he got the idea of the mashed potatoes...I just didn't get it...(please don't try to explain it to me, my husband tried, I lost interest after 2 minutes into the explanation.... hehehehehe)
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| Oh, how I agree!! | Oct 14, 2009 |
Marijke Singer wrote:
I had to watch it because it was linked to my MA thesis and I nearly feel asleep.
Pulp Fiction is a fantastic film.
L'Année Dernière à Marienbad is one of my all-time most loathed films. What a lot of pretentious cr*p.
Then there's Tarkovsky's films, especially "The Stalker". I did indeed stalk out after the first hour and realising that those men were never going to get out of that drain - but our mutual dislike of the film did bring me and my husband together.
I know it's heresy to admit to disliking L'année dernière and Tarkovsky - but what the hell ...
Jenny
Oh, I forgot. Vanilla Sky - Tom Cruise. Avoid. Avoid. What a bore.
[Edited at 2009-10-14 08:09 GMT]
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| French mini-series | Oct 14, 2009 |
So bad they're good. Basque TV must have bought a joblot of these things from across the border a few years ago, and they've been weekend 9.30 pm - 1 am regulars ever since. They're usually thrillers (tongue lodged in cheek), starring either Bruno Madinier, Anthony Delon, or Vincent Pérez, depending on their filming schedules. The latest, however, was an epic called Eternelle, with no names that ring any bells at all outside France, though I see two or three of the actors have impressive CVs at... See more So bad they're good. Basque TV must have bought a joblot of these things from across the border a few years ago, and they've been weekend 9.30 pm - 1 am regulars ever since. They're usually thrillers (tongue lodged in cheek), starring either Bruno Madinier, Anthony Delon, or Vincent Pérez, depending on their filming schedules. The latest, however, was an epic called Eternelle, with no names that ring any bells at all outside France, though I see two or three of the actors have impressive CVs at home. It wasn't so much a thriller as a yawner, although I nearly made it to the end (it was over two weekends), but tragically fell asleep during the last half hour. If anyone out there knows what happened to the mysterious "Elle" and Dr Yann at the end, please don't tell me.
The story was that a doctor (Yann) accidentally runs down a naked woman in the street one night (Elle - well, she turns herself into different people throughout, because it's that kind of film, but she's cast as "Elle"). He brings her to the hospital, where she dies on a life-support machine, except Yann whispers to her, Don't die, and she promptly resuscitates. Yann goes back home, she runs off from the hospital and finds him, knowing where he lives because she has powers, see, including the ability to erase people's memory and make them believe things that aren't so. She does this at one point with Yann so that he won't remember his ex-wife, but changes it because he objects to her messing around with his freedom to remember, unpleasant though it may be. She refuses to leave his side for some reason, and so he takes her with him on the daily rounds. They go to a farm where a man's wife has fallen from the roof and killed herself, but Elle (those powers again) tells Yann that's not true, he pushed her off the roof, and that in fact the river beside the farm is full of dead women in barrels, I kid you not, all attributable to the farmer, a prolific serial killer between milking sessions. The cops arrive, and one of the officers takes a special interest in the case because his daughter went missing years ago. He flips, though, because the last he heard at the hospital was that this woman was supposed to be dead, but to sort matters out Elle simply erases his memory of things. While she's at it, she makes him believe that she is, in fact, his daughter. Actually, as the story limps on she is constantly changing the poor copper's memory and vision of things.
Meanwhile, back at the hospital, where they test viruses with mice (well, they say mice, but these look like rats to me), the mice are playing up due to a virus that has something to do with Elle. Enter a mysterious large man with staring eyes and long grey hair who is looking for Elle (HIS daughter, apparently, not the policeman's), and starts throwing his considerable weight around at the hospital. He is ....
Well, I have things to do around here, so work the rest out for yourselves. Anything will do. I think the scriptwriters were locked in a room for a few months with a kilo of stuff to smoke.
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The Sicilian with Chrisopher Lambert. The only time I've actually got up and left the cinema. Oh, and Pulp Fiction is a great film.
| | | | | Not The Big Lebowski... | Oct 14, 2009 |
Liliana Roman-Hamilton wrote:
The Big Lebowski (didn't get it...what was all that fuss about bowling???)
[Edited at 2009-10-14 06:59 GMT]
I'm with you on almost everything from Borat to The Village, (made me remember xXx, or Triple X, with Vin Diesel, another one for the bottom of the heap), BUT...
The Big Lebowski is a very funny comedy, full of memorable one lines (I guess you are not a golfer... At least I'm housebroken... Bummer, man... The Dude, His Dudeness, El Duderino, if you're not into the whole brevity thing).
Jeff Bridges is brilliant, if you have ever known a real stonehead, you know he's perfect, and John Goodman really plays a great parody of an Irak war veteran.
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| Taste, sleep effect, online lists... | Oct 14, 2009 |
kleiner Kater wrote:
But you know what they say... there's just no accounting for taste.
B-class movies aside (which in many cases I find at least extremely funny because they are so absurd), I'd like to concur on the "sleep effect category" movies.
For example, in my case, the much acclaimed "Dancer in the Dark" (though I like both Catherine Deneuve and Björk's music in general) or "Breaking the Waves", both from Lars Von Trier (I find most of the movies I have watched from him quite pedantic and pretentious).
These are usually movies that for me are both depressing and boring. I mean, there are depressing movies that can actually be at least very touching, that make you cry for an hour or more, but I mean the ones that soon enough put you to sleep. Another example (so that you don't think that I got something personal against Von Trier): a German one I recently watched, "Cloud 9".
[Side note: I wonder if movies with a sleep effect are actually used as shock sleep therapy for insomniac people. They are probably a lot more effective than sleeping pills.]
But anyway, if you also want to get an idea about some other people's choices of top bad movies, check out this list at "Everyone's a Critic": The bottom 200, or this other website totally dedicated to bad movies: www.badmovies.org/
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P.S.: as I was posting this message, I see that David Russi is defending "The Big Lebowski", and I completely agree with him. I absolutely love "The Dude" character, way too funny interpretation from Jeff Bridges, plus John Goodman is great, too (I love it when he smashes the wrong car or when he is always hearing the distant "choppers").
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| | | | | Hands off The Big Lebowski! | Oct 14, 2009 |
I'll add my voice in defence - it's a great film. And I won't hear a word against Dancer in the Dark, either (even if I'm the only person I know who liked it). And Borat had me crying with laughter.
| | | | Gianni Pastore
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TOPIC STARTER | No way, ma'am :) | Oct 14, 2009 |
Liliana Roman-Hamilton wrote:
The Big Lebowski (didn't get it...what was all that fuss about bowling???)
It's not about bowling, Lilith, it's about "the duuuuude"
Boy, it's so funny I still check clips on U-Tube when I need to cheer up.
G
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